I was hoping that rolling my own blog code would mean I'd escape the comment spammers, but apparently not. Luckily Miguel Jimenez offers a CAPTCHA control for free use (with a promise of source code to follow). For the unaware CAPTCHA stands for Computer Aided Program to Tell Humans and Computers Apart.

So I'm afraid if you wish to comment you'll now have to enter the image at the bottom of the comment form, or as Phillip points out, write some neural network code to parse them automatically. More amusingly (to me) was my comment on a post Phil made about his ninja monkey comment moderators triggered his email spam filter <g>

It's an arms race against spammers; I'm considering making you use the postal service to send me a postcard with your comments on and I'll transcribe them for you.